Invention

In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriving and producing something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment. Also the article or contriyance or composition so invented, An “invention” differs froma“discovery.” The former term is preperly applicable to the contriy- — ance and production of something that did not before exist; while discovery denotes the bringing into knowledge and use of something which, although it existed, was beforeunknown. Thus, we speak of the “discovery” of the propertias of light, electricity, etc., while the telescope and the elec — tric motor are the results of the process of “inyention.”